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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged — In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann's then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman. — Dziok had worked for Bachmann …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bachmann continues to surge — Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll. 21% of Republican primary voters say she's their top choice to 20% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Rick Perry …
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Washington Wire, GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's …, Booman Tribune, TPMDC, The New Republic and The Daily Dish
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bachmann “incapacitated” by migraines? — The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong drops a bombshell on the Michele Bachmann campaign today with a report that migraines incapacitate the presidential hopeful on a regular basis. The headline also alleges “heavy pill use,” a loaded phrase that insinuates …
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Riehl World View, Salon, National Review and Politics
The Note:
The Note: Straw Poll Shake Up?: Bachmann Under Scrutiny, Rick Perry Backtracks — By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) — Is Michele Bachmann healthy enough to be president? That is the question raised by a new Daily Caller story quoting several former aides …
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Michele Bachmann's Migraines and the History of Presidential Ailments
Michele Bachmann's Migraines and the History of Presidential Ailments
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GOP 12 and Prairie Weather
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Potential Perry donors to meet Tuesday night in Austin
Potential Perry donors to meet Tuesday night in Austin
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GOP 12, Washington Post and Austin American-Statesman
Martina Stewart / CNN:
From Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: Why some Dems now support GOP women
From Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: Why some Dems now support GOP women
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Road Not Taken — Over the past months, Republicans enjoyed enormous advantages. Opinion polls showed that voters are eager to reduce the federal debt, and they want to do it mostly but not entirely through spending cuts. — There was a Democratic president eager to move to the center.
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The Politico:
GOP has no backup plan after vote — There's a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they've gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal. — But if that's the case, the conservatives aren't in on the plan.
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Group of House Republicans Aim to Stop McConnell Debt-Ceiling Plan
Group of House Republicans Aim to Stop McConnell Debt-Ceiling Plan
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Politics
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Warren Buffett: Debt ceiling should be removed
Warren Buffett: Debt ceiling should be removed
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And So it Goes in Shreveport and CNN
The Hill:
Coburn rejoins Gang of Six, backs $3.7T deficit-reduction plan — Democratic and Republican senators are rallying behind a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan announced Tuesday morning by the five remaining members of the Gang of Six. — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who pulled out of the Gang …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Gang of 6 deficit effort gains momentum
Gang of 6 deficit effort gains momentum
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NationalJournal.com, The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal and Swampland
Guardian:
Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live — • Rupert Murdoch attacked at select committee — • ‘This is the most humble day of my life,’ Murdoch tells MPs — • News Corp chair was ‘asked to enter No 10 by back door’ — • Rupert ‘had no knowledge at all of Taylor settlement’
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BBC:
1711: Iain Watson Political correspondent, BBC News
1711: Iain Watson Political correspondent, BBC News
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Latest Updates on Phone Hacking Scandal
Latest Updates on Phone Hacking Scandal
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Joe Conason / National Memo:
Exclusive Bill Clinton Interview: I Would Use Constitutional Option To Raise Debt Ceiling And “Force The Courts To Stop Me” — Former President Bill Clinton says that he would invoke the so-called constitutional option to raise the nation's debt ceiling “without hesitation …
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Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Fox News, ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, New York Magazine and Politics
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton: I'd use 14th Amendment
Bill Clinton: I'd use 14th Amendment
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Weasel Zippers, ThinkProgress and iOwnTheWorld.com
Susanna Kim / ABCNEWS:
Man Attempts Attack on Murdoch During Hearing; Murdoch's Wife Lunges at Attacker — A Parliament hearing into hacking by News Corp. journalists erupted into chaos Tuesday as CEO Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man with what appeared to be a pie. — Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife …
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James Kirkup / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Rupert Murdoch attacked: an eyewitness account
Rupert Murdoch attacked: an eyewitness account
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial — MIAMI — Assertions by the prosecution that Casey Anthony conducted extensive computer searches on the word “chloroform” were based on inaccurate data, a software designer who testified at the trial said Monday.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Split Evenly on Urgency of Debt Limit Debate — OVERVIEW — While administration officials project an economic catastrophe if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2, many Americans do not see this deadline as a major problem. Four-in-ten (40%) say that, from what they've read and heard …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis
Bachmann Nation: For Republicans and Tea Partyers, there is no imminent crisis
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Zandar Versus The Stupid and Hullabaloo
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
Americans, Including Republicans, Want Debt Compromise
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Hot Air, CBS News, Hullabaloo, Hotline On Call, Wake up America and The Monkey Cage
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
FAMiLY LEADER's Bob Vander Plaats Erupts In Laughter At Faggot Joke: 'That's Pretty Good' — The FAMiLY LEADER's 14-point marriage fidelity pledge has divided the GOP's 2012 presidential field and raised concerns among GOP operatives that the group and its president — three …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Reddit Co-Founder Charged With Data Theft — Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, was indicted Tuesday in Boston on charges that he stole over four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.
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Adam Serwer:
Harry Potter's Shylocky Goblins — I'm not a Harry Potter fan myself, but I did see the last movie this weekend and I was struck by how much J.K. Rowling's Goblins appear to be modeled after anti-Semitic stereotypes. Aside from being small, miserly, and gifted with large schnozes, Goblins …
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Balancing Act — A balanced budget amendment is the wrong debt solution. — Republicans this week plan to force votes in the House and Senate on a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The last time Congress voted on a BBA was in 1997. It failed. The first unsuccessful BBA was proposed in 1936.
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Outside the Beltway, FrumForum and The Lonely Conservative
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Justice Department lawyers contradict FBI findings in anthrax case — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and terrorized Congress a decade ago.
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected ‘Anonymous’ Hackers — The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned. — More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y. …
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The Note:
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Advantage on Aiding the Middle Class Helps Keep Obama's Approval Afloat — Analysis By ABC News' Pollster Gary Langer: — Most Americans think the Republicans in Congress have got Wall Street and large corporations' backs, while President Obama prevails …
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Howard Portnoy / The Greenroom:
What if the President Told a Joke and Nobody Laughed? — Not possible, you say—not for the funniest person alive. But it's true. President Obama was on the White House lawn today, introducing former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordary as the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs — Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a USA TODAY analysis finds. — Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Conservative groups threaten GOP lawmakers who vote for McConnell's last-ditch plan - @OMBPress - Panetta's spokespair: George Little and Capt. John Kirby - NYC moguls entreat Christie to run — FIRST LOOK — Jason Furman, deputy director of the White House's National Economic Council, on …
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Coburn Proposes Eliminating The Dollar Bill To Reduce The Deficit — Yesterday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) unveiled his dead-on-arrival plan to reduce the nation's debt by $9 trillion over the next 10 years. Coburn, who stormed out of debt talks a few weeks ago in a temper tantrum …
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